September 2022
Crops for a changing planet
An Oak Ridge team links plant performance and genetics, seeking a food-biofuel balance in a changing climate.
Category Archives: Biofuels
June 2018
Cellular energy crisis
An Arizona State University scientist mines supercomputer simulations of protein dynamics for biological energy-conversion principles.
September 2016
Untangling plant polymers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory-University of Tennessee team hopes to ease the path from vegetation to biofuel.
May 2012
Feasible fuels
Large-scale computing proves an important tool for testing hypotheses about cellulose-derived fuels.
March 2011
Fiber into fuel
Computational models search for economical ways to convert lignocellulose, the woody material in plant stems and leaves, into ethanol fuel.
February 2009
Power from plants
Deploying massive computer resources to convert stems and leaves to sugars for fuel.